A new XML parser from BEA makes it easy to handle instance documents in Java, using regular bean-like syntax.
by Laurence Moroney
October 3, 2003
very once in a while there comes around a tool so useful it makes you wonder why nobody ever did it before, or why it hasn't been a part of the technology since its inception. Such a tool is XMLBeans, an XML parser developed by BEA for WebLogic 8.1 and recently released as an open source initiative.
We've all used parsers and APIs for handling XML, and there is no shortage of them. XMLBeans is different from the typical XML parser because it is designed to build applications based on known, specific schemas. At its core is a schema compiler that parses an XSD file and creates a JAR. The JAR contains a bunch of Java classes that developers can use to manipulate instance documents as if they were normal Java types.
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very once in a while there comes around a tool so useful it makes you wonder why nobody ever did it before, or why it hasn't been a part of the technology since its inception. Such a tool is XMLBeans, an XML parser developed by BEA for WebLogic 8.1 and recently released as an open source initiative.
